Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate
Section 442.340 - Remedy against persons refusing to appear and answer.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939
442.340. Remedy against persons refusing to appear and answer. — Every person who, being served with such subpoena, shall, without reasonable cause, refuse or neglect to appear or, appearing, shall refuse to answer, upon oath, touching the matters aforesaid, shall forfeit to the party injured one hundred dollars, to be recovered by civil action, and may also be committed to prison by the officer who issued such subpoena, there to remain without bail until he shall submit to answer, upon oath, as aforesaid.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3425)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3038; 1919 § 2197; 1909 § 2808

Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property

Chapter 442 - Titles and Conveyance of Real Estate

Section 442.010 - Definitions.

Section 442.012 - Solar energy is a property right — eminent domain not permitted — easement requirements.

Section 442.014 - Private landowner protection act — definitions — conservation easement permitted, when, validity — applicability.

Section 442.015 - Conveyance or encumbrance of manufactured homes, requirements — affidavit of affixation — deemed real estate, when — detachment or severance from real estate, effect of.

Section 442.020 - Conveyances of lands.

Section 442.025 - Conveyance to self and others to create joint estate.

Section 442.030 - Conveyance of property of spouse — covenants.

Section 442.035 - Conveyance of estates by the entireties by minors or disabled persons, conservator's powers and duties.

Section 442.040 - Person under eighteen years of age may join in conveyance with adult spouse.

Section 442.055 - Contamination of premises, radioactive or hazardous material — disclosure to prospective lessees, purchasers, or transferees — penalty.

Section 442.060 - Private or public corporations may convey real estate.

Section 442.070 - Person may convey, notwithstanding adverse possession.

Section 442.080 - Conveyances by persons under eighteen years of age binding, when.

Section 442.090 - Conveyances by minor veterans valid when necessary to obtain advantage of federal law.

Section 442.095 - Sections 442.090 to 442.120 applicable to whom.

Section 442.100 - Disability of minority removed to enable veterans to acquire or convey property.

Section 442.110 - Honorable discharge of veteran, evidence necessary.

Section 442.120 - Loans to underage servicemen authorized.

Section 442.130 - Execution of deeds and other conveyances — marital status of grantor required on written instruments.

Section 442.135 - Descriptions of subdivided property, contents.

Section 442.140 - Execution of deeds in foreign language — translation — recording.

Section 442.145 - Personal appearance, acknowledgement by communication technology.

Section 442.150 - Proof or acknowledgment, by whom taken.

Section 442.155 - Acknowledgment of instruments not affecting lands — certificate — curative provision.

Section 442.160 - Acknowledgments of instruments by persons in military service — form — instruments previously acknowledged validated, when.

Section 442.180 - Certificate to be endorsed on conveyance.

Section 442.190 - Certificate, how made.

Section 442.200 - Identity of persons making acknowledgments, how ascertained.

Section 442.210 - Certificate of acknowledgment — contents.

Section 442.220 - Conveyances of bounty lands, how acknowledged.

Section 442.230 - Such instrument valid.

Section 442.240 - Such instrument, filed for record, to impart notice.

Section 442.250 - Copies to be read in evidence.

Section 442.260 - Proof of execution of instruments.

Section 442.270 - When proof of subscribing witness shall be taken.

Section 442.280 - What subscribing witness shall prove before certificate shall be granted.

Section 442.290 - What facts certificate of proof shall set forth.

Section 442.300 - Proof, when grantor and witnesses are dead.

Section 442.310 - Certificate of proof, when granted.

Section 442.320 - Certificate to recite evidence required by section 442.310.

Section 442.330 - Subscribing witnesses, when and how summoned to prove execution of instrument.

Section 442.340 - Remedy against persons refusing to appear and answer.

Section 442.350 - Provisions relating to acknowledgment or proof not to extend to last wills and testaments.

Section 442.360 - Powers of attorney, how acknowledged and proved.

Section 442.370 - When deemed revoked.

Section 442.380 - Instruments to be recorded.

Section 442.390 - Notice imparted from time of filing for record.

Section 442.400 - Not valid until recorded.

Section 442.403 - Restrictive covenants relating to discrimination invalid — effect — no liability by existence of covenant in document filed by specific date — refusal to record, when — certificate of release of prohibited covenants.

Section 442.404 - Political signs, homeowners' associations not to prohibit — reasonable restrictions and removal permitted, when — solar panels and sale signs not to be prohibited or restricted, exceptions.

Section 442.410 - Deeds to be recorded, where record lost — fees.

Section 442.420 - "Grant, bargain and sell", how construed.

Section 442.430 - Title acquired by grantor after conveyance inures to grantee.

Section 442.440 - Conveyances to counties for their use — effect.

Section 442.450 - Conveyance to more than one — effect.

Section 442.460 - The term "heirs" not necessary to convey a fee simple estate.

Section 442.470 - Entails not allowed — the remainder in fee simple — to whom it shall pass.

Section 442.480 - Remainder to take effect on death of person without heirs — how construed.

Section 442.490 - Remainder limited to heirs of a person having a life estate — how disposed of.

Section 442.500 - Lineal and collateral warranties abolished.

Section 442.510 - An estate limited in remainder to the son or daughter of any person to be begotten, how disposed of.

Section 442.520 - A future estate, on the death of any person without heirs, how defeated.

Section 442.530 - Value of life estates — how computed.

Section 442.540 - Rule of calculation.

Section 442.550 - Examples.

Section 442.555 - Rule against perpetuities, application of modified.

Section 442.557 - General power of appointment exercisable at death of donee, perpetuities period to run from death of donee.

Section 442.558 - Transfer fee covenants not to run with title to real property — lien void, when.

Section 442.560 - Aliens and corporations of foreign countries may acquire, hold and alienate real estate — exception.

Section 442.566 - Definitions.

Section 442.571 - Aliens or foreign business, limitations on owning agricultural land — violation — acquisitions submitted to department, when — rulemaking authority.

Section 442.576 - Duties of director of agriculture and attorney general — court to order divestiture — when to be accomplished — failure.

Section 442.581 - Lease deemed to be ownership, when.

Section 442.586 - Lands owned by resident aliens — cessation of residence — failure to divest, effect.

Section 442.591 - Exceptions.

Section 442.592 - Report required — content — failure to file, civil penalty, venue — foreign person, defined — rules, procedure.

Section 442.600 - Psychologically impacted real property, defined — disclosure to buyer not mandatory — no cause of action for failure to disclose.

Section 442.606 - Methamphetamine production, seller of property to disclose to buyer such production and certain criminal convictions.